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That leaves just one defendant, Michael Grevious II, facing the death penalty. Grevious is charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault for a shootout in July 2016 at Doubles Bar. His trial is scheduled to begin in April.

A string of violence in the summer of 2016 began with a shootout at the former bar on the city’s west side that killed one person and wounded seven others. That shooting sparked retaliation violence on the afternoon of Aug. 3, 2016, that left Gilbert and Berus dead.

On the afternoon of Aug. 3, 2016, a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Melinda Gibby pulled up next to a black Ford Mustang occupied by Gilbert and Berus. Patete, the front seat passenger of the truck, opened fire with an AK-47 multiple times, killing Gilbert and Berus, according to court documents.

Prosecutors and the judge read letters from Berus’ mother, grandmother and sisters.

Berus’ aunt Mollie Berus stood just a few feet from Patete and read a statement.

“On Aug. 3, 2016, without any thought to the consequences of your actions and with disregard for human life, you took a gun, leaned out the window and opened fire,” Mollie Berus said. “You not only shot and killed your intended target, but you also struck and killed an innocent bystander, my beloved nephew Todd. As the police told us, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Mollie Berus said her nephew never got to meet his young daughter.

“Because of you, our family is broken and we cannot pick up the pieces,” she said.